On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 11:26:50AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> I resurrected a realy old 486 machine with two disks. The second one is found
> by the BIOS, but not attached by NetBSD (see dmesg below).
> 
> These drive must be strange somehow, as a FreeBSD generic install kernel
> does probe it, but a (striped) custom one doesn't find it. Anyway, it works
> quite well with the generic FreeBSD install kernel, so the hardware should
> be OK.
> 
> Any hints?

I find the probe sequence strange. It should'nt do the register writabitily
test.
Can you confirm you have:
/*      $NetBSD: wdc.c,v 1.63 1999/03/25 16:17:36 bouyer Exp $ */
(look at file sys/dev/ic/wdc.c) ?
If not, could you try to update your sources ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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